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From homerecording.com, a collection of approaches to mixing:
First thing is to do the faders up listening. If you're a member of the band, or the engineer, or even worse both (as well as the song writer and the overall aranger of the songs….like I am), then TRY REALLY HARD to forget that. You have to […]
Tags: microphones, mixing
A couple of weeks ago, Avril Lavigne found herself facing allegations that she'd plagiarized a 30 year old song. (Here's some quick background.) It's old news now, but worth revisiting because some aspects of the case could be important for amateur producers and home recordists.
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Lavigne and her co-writer didn't rip off The Rubinoos. Not even […]
Tags: arrangement, music business
Here are a couple of sites I've enjoyed recently that you might not have seen:
Homemade noize, a growing collection of DIY projects and software plugins, mostly aimed at amateur recording enthusiasts.
And Spinmeister's Extreme Mixer (eMXR) site, which focuses on online collaboration and remixing. From the site:
Long held business models for recorded music are crumbling not […]
Tags: collaboration, diy
Storm Recording Studio has disappeared off the internet, taking with it the only source of drum sample replacer Drumtrig.
I mentioned Drumtrig in the list of drum replacer plugins. It's a free, dressed-down alternative to Drumagog: Only one sample per track, but incredibly easy to use.
As with the similarly-fated Paris EQ, I saved the install […]
Tags: drum trigger, drums, plugins, vst
Michael Dean and Chris Caulder have released a CC-licensed (and free) eBook about making music digitally: Digital Music - DIY Now!
The book claims to be "for people who want to record their own compositions and get them out to the World" and "for people who want a career making music for films, TV, and video […]
Tags: business, home studio, music business
I'm Canadian, so I glaze over in most discussions of U.S. domestic policy. Accordingly, I have basically ignored the debate over Internet radio royalty rates. But my interest has increased after reading two well-reasoned opinions on how the debate bears directly on independent musicians.
The first, in Business Week:
The outrage against the CRB rates isn't fueled […]
Tags: business
Steve Albini (yes, that Steve Albini) hangs out on the 2+2 poker forums, and decided to entertain music questions from the poker community. It seems an odd location for that discussion, but the thread has some great Albini quotes:
Well, mixing isn't the magic bullet it's purported to be. A recording is about 90 percent as […]
Tags: professional engineers
I've been away from Hometracked for the last week because I had a chance to record in a great space: A Muskoka cottage with 14-foot cathedral ceilings and all-pine interior. Perfect for recording drums!
I was certain the space would yield a better drum sound. Still, I thought it would be interesting to hear how big […]
Tags: drums, home studio, snare drum
For a sales video, this "recording guitar" primer from Presonus is surprisingly effective, especially if you struggle to get a usable tone from acoustic or electric guitar:
Read the full post ...I ask most people I talk to where they listen to music: On a home stereo system? Through headphones? In the car? While I haven't tracked the answers scientifically, I'd say the breakdown looks roughly like:
Headphones or earphones:
60%
PC speakers:
20%
Car speakers:
10%
HiFi speakers:
10%
A recent CEA study adds that three quarters of adults online listen to music on […]
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